China Mieville

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). His most recent novel, Kraken, was published in 2010.

In 2010 China Miéville won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel The City and the City, the first time in its history an author has won it three times.

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British author Miéville is one of the most adept practitioners when it comes to creating imaginary worlds and cities which are both alien and recognisable as an extrapolation of the world we live in. The urban and gothic New Crobuzon is a harbour for humans, mutants, magicians and every mysterious species under the sun. Old-fashioned storytelling taken off the leash and exhaustively inventive.

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Embassytown China Mieville Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012. Shortlisted for the BSFA Best Novel Award 2011. China Mieville is not just a galaxy in the science fiction firmament, he is a whole universe! Following THE CITY AND THE CITY'S gripping crime investigation... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Iron Council China Mieville Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2005This prize-winning author (Arthur C Clarke 2001, British Fantasy Award 2003) was hailed by the literary establishment when he first appeared on the scene as a fantastic new star, not only in... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

The City and the City China Mieville Winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010. A strange and compelling murder mystery set in a place like no other. In a unique and seemingly impossible land, two separate cities share the same space at the same time, the... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Embassytown China Mieville Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012. May 2011 Book of the Month. China Mieville is not just a galaxy in the science fiction firmament, he is a whole universe! Following THE CITY... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £13.49 - Saving £4.50 (25%)

Kraken China Mieville The protean Mieville's take on a London full to the brim with Gods, mortals and supernatural manifestations. This is London today but not as we know it as a teeming galaxy of inhuman manifestations invade the streets and skies and... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Kraken China Mieville Mieville follows his award-winning THE CITY AND THE CITY with a wild jaunt through a fantasy London chockfull of quirks, magic, assassins and teeming like Dickens with a multitude of human and non-human protagonists. The disappearance of a giant... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2010 Lovereading Price: £13.49 - Saving £4.50 (25%)

The City and the City China Mieville His forte is the lavish descriptions of weird, surrealistic cities and the teeming, bizarre life that inhabits them, but his latest THE CITY AND THE CITY is almost a crime novel, as an investigator delves into a murder and a... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/05/2009 Lovereading Price: £13.49 - Saving £4.50 (25%)

Un Lun Dun China Mieville What an absolutely brilliant, extraordinary and wildly inventive fantasy adventure. Published in hardback in 2007 to huge acclaim, this will be devoured for everything ordinary in London becomes extraordinary here in Un lun dun. Fast-paced, bizarre, funny but scary, it’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2008 Lovereading Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)

Perdido Street Station China Mieville British author Mieville is one of the most adept practitioners when it comes to creating imaginary worlds and cities which are both alien and recognisable as an extrapolation of the world we live in. The urban and gothic New Crobuzon... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/02/2001 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)